It may be hard to see what’s going on here, but it’s the faint light of the projector on the watercolor paper after I finished drawing. It’s only a small piece of the painting. Just one layer of the blue sky background in. I think it’s too... The final progression of the painting I call “Zinoasis:” 
Steve-o and Annette Lamott are, as she says, a miracle. When they first met in 1996, she had a huge crush on him. She gave him her business card, he never called. He met someone else, married and had a daughter. She carried on, raising her daughter never finding... 
These grapes grew in a tiny vineyard (29 plants) on a red-dirt hillside in my brother Mike’s backyard in San Anselmo, where he and his wife Julie created a lovely idyll – table and chairs under a bright red umbrella and the canopy of a walnut tree. They... 
Here’s where I am today – pretty much all the leaves are done (may need to make changes after all else is painted). Working on the vine branches. Scroll down to see the various stages over the past two weeks. September 11 – All the background done... 